Amara Keita is the new
runner up. Today he won his game from Fidele Nimbi. Keita doesn't have a
'draw problem', because he won six games, lost two and no draws. Tomorrow
there is a rapid tournament. Sunday is the last round of the main
tournament.
Ivan Trofimov won the blitz tournament. Results: see Toernooibase.

12 May 2016

Ivan
Trofimov won again and will probably win Thailand Open 2016. Ron Heusdens
lost a piece against Natalia Shestakova, but succeeded in making a draw.

These Thai children (and more) don't have a father nor a mother anymore,
but got the love and some money from the participants of Thailand Open.

10 May 2016

Ivan
Trofimov consolidated his leadership in the tournament. Macadou N'Diaye,
Natalia Shestakova, Ron Heusdens and Menno de Block are the runners up.
Without any doubt Fidele Nimbi and Anna Chuprova played the most exciting
game of this round. They both got the prize for the best game. This is
draughts like the wish of Boeddha!
Walter Thoen won the prize for the best combination with a remarkable
forcing.

In
the 4th round Ivan Trofimov from Russia took the lead by beating Amara
Keita. Until now he won all his games and if he doesn't loss the game
against Macodou N'Diaye in the next round, he has big chances to win the
2016 edition of Thailand Open. The game ended indeed in a draw.

Nattawut Upiri - Ype
Feenstra

The
Thai player took his best chance: 48. 30-25!, 10-14; 49.37-32!,...
Both (17-21) and (27-31) look very oncomfortable because of 32-27 and
38-33. After (22-28) the draw is not difficult. The Dutch seaman seemed to
have a good trick:49..., 14-19(!); 50. 25x23, 22-28; 51.32x21, 28x30;Is a quick draw unevitable? Upiri found an astonishing move:52. 16-11!!, 17x6; After (17x26) 11-7 white has an easy win. 53. 29-23!, 15-20; 54. 23-19, 12-18; 55. 21-17!, 30-35; 56. 17-12, 18x7;
57. 19-13,... and white won the game (which was analytical still a
draw). Upiri won the round prize for the best game.

8 May 2016

White to move plays and
wins.

Willem
Vlooswijk had the day of his life with his game against Ron Heusdens. The
international grandmaster made a mistake in the beginning of the game and
Vlooswijk took a combination with a cheap king and 2-0 as result. Of
course he won the prize for the best game of the 2nd round. Ramon Sakidin
won a prize for the nicest combination and also Amara Keita got a prize
for a typical African endgame trick. See Games in applet, round
2.
After 3 rounds Ivan Trofimov and Amara Keita took the lead with 6 points.

Special attention for Dutch draughts player Dick van Ommeren. With his age
of 84 years he is the oldest participant of Thailand Open ever. And he
plays very well: after 3 rounds he has 4 points and in the 3rd round he
failed to win against the French referee Henri Macaux.

7 May 2016

Today
the tournament has been started. Two remarkable results: Henri Macaux en
Hans Loots agreed with a draw against the strong players Macadou N'Diaye
and Natalia Shestakova. Macaux even missed a chance to win and Shestakova
was not unlucky that a (missed) move of Loots was not winning.
Also Gerard Bruins played a good game against Ivan Trofimov. Long time he
had a better position, but in the end the Russian player took a nice,
winning combination.
Henk Kamminga won the prize for the best game, which ended by a deep
forcing.
The computer found a remarkable possibility in the game Thoen - Banchuen.
See all the games and the annotations: Games in applet, Round 1 on the left
site.
You can also see a slide show of the first round: Photographs, 2016.

6 May 2016

The
cups. According to Ron Heusdens the 1st prize is too big to take as
luggage in the aeroplane.

In
any case, some 50 draughts players, including African champion Macodou
N'Diaye and Dutch champion Ron Heusdens. These
grandmasters are also the biggest favorites for the Thailand Open
International Draughts Tournament 2016, which starts at the Jomtien Garden
Hotel on May 7. The 50 participants have many nationalities, but the Dutch are the best
represented with approximately 30 men.

Special
attention is given to the until last year totally unknown Thai draughts
player Marut Banchuen, who played in Thailand Open 2015 draw against
former world champion from Latvia Guntis Valneris. This result literally
went all over the draughts world.

The
draughts tournament has already 12 years a successful formula: one will
play mostly in the morning, and in the afternoon there is the opportunity
to book an excursion, or to walk in Pattaya or to swim in the hotel
swimming pool. And in the night even the shyest wallflowers use to change in confident Don
Juans, with one or more local beauties in their arms.

Many
participants regularly return to the tournament. Two
Surinamese-Dutch draughts players, will play for the 12th year
in succession Thailand Open: Ramon Sakidin and Bas Baksoellah. The
tournament lasts nine days and can be followed on the website
www.thailandopen.nl. It
has for years sponsored by Tulip House and Jomtien Garden Hotel.

27 April 2016

In
a few days the 12th edition of Thailand Open International Draughts
Tournament will start in the Jomtien
Garden Hotel in Jomtien/Pattaya.

3 January 2016

Theprovisional entrylistforThailandOpen2016already has40participants.If we candouble this numberweare very happy.